The Morena party, headed by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is considered the strong favorite to remain in power, will conduct an open poll of the population on September 6 to select the 2024 presidential candidate. According to Mexican media reports, this poll will pit the favorites against each other, and who will have to step down? The poll will be organized by the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and other private organizations.
Morena’s National Council approved a document that establishes that the party’s candidate will be chosen through this consultation mechanism. The registration of aspirants before Morena will take place from June 12 to 16, and those who register must resign from their positions or representative posts on the same day, upon invitation by the party.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, one of the key officials in López Obrador’s cabinet and with whom he has worked for more than two decades, announced last week that he will resign from his post next Monday.
Among the main contenders are the mayor of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Minister of the Interior, Adán Augusto López. According to various polls, Sheinbaum leads the preferences to become Morena’s candidate in the June 2024 presidential elections, while Ebrard is in second place.
The agreement establishes that the losers of the poll must respect and accept the results of the process as well as support the winner. During their campaigns, the aspirants must prioritize contact with the people and informative meetings, behave in an austere manner, and reject anti-democratic practices such as harassment, coercion, and alliances with groups or individuals in exchange for benefits.
Morena, López Obrador’s party, is emerging as the winner of the 2024 elections, according to most polls, regardless of who is elected as a candidate. Following intensified competition among the contenders in recent weeks, the agreement was unanimously approved at a board meeting. The survey will be conducted by the party’s polling commission with the assistance of four private pollsters and will run from August 28 to September 3.